Latest issue of Lincoln Review now on the stands The November-December issue of the Lincoln Review is out. In it, you’ll read the latest on Route 2 by Dan Boynton, a beautiful and moving memorial of Father Drennan by Sylvia Pelosi Kennedy, and an interview with exhibit designer Marjorie Hilton, who created the fascinating displays at the…
A November 17 article in the Lincoln Squirrel about the State of the Town meeting originally gave the wrong first name for Dore and Whittier architect Jason Boone and misstated the purpose of a December 2 public forum, at which residents will help the SBAC and Dore and Whittier narrow down the school project options in preparation for a final…
(Editor’s note: this article was updated on November 18 to include clarifications and additional document links.)
By Alice Waugh
At the State of the Town meeting on November 15, hundreds of Lincoln residents asked questions and heard cost estimates for two projects that are on parallel discussion tracks heading for Town Meeting in the spring: a school building project and a community center.
The Lincoln School needs millions of dollars in basic repairs as well as improvements such as cafeterias and other upgrades to improve education, while the Council Aging, now in cramped quarters in Bemis Hall, also urgently needs better space, town officials said.
“In both cases, doing nothing is not an option,” Selectman Renel Fredriksen said at the start of the meeting.
The deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum is expected to announce today that John B. Ravenal, curator for modern and contemporary art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, Va., as new executive director starting in January. See the this Boston Globe article for details. Katy Kline has been interim director since the departure of Dennis Kois…
To the editor: It’s that time of year again, when the leaf blowers are at play. I won’t belabor the most obvious effect—the disturbing of the municipal peace. Rather, there is another concern regarding leaf blowers—less audible but equally important—which I, as a gardener and naturalist, feel strongly about. It is how they compromise the…
By Alice Waugh
The Leaf Blower Study Committee (LBSC) is using a two-pronged approach to curb the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in town: educating residents and coming up with a bylaw to limit the use of the machines that it will propose to Town Meeting in 2015.
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Tonight: film on extinct passenger pigeons Join us on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 7:30 p.m. in the Lincoln Land Conservation Trust (LLCT) offices above the Lincoln Station post office for the first of four environmental films that the LLCT will be showing through the fall/winter months. From Billions to None: The Passenger Pigeon’s Flight to Extinction tells the…
Editor’s note: See this Lincoln Squirrel article for information on the school project and this one for coverage of the community center charrette.
To the editor:
This coming Saturday, Nov. 15 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the State of the Town meeting (SOTT) in the Brooks auditorium, we will have an opportunity to weigh in on two important projects that are making their way through the town decision-making process: the community center project and a school building project. We will be discussing “pathways” for both projects, but all pathways have certain pitfalls and potholes that must be addressed before we can pave a route that the whole town might travel together.
Here are some photos and captions by Alaric Naiman, who edits an online journal about the Farrar Pond area at https://fpond.org with pictures, maps, history and geography of the pond and its environs. Click on one of the small images below to see a larger version as well as the entire slideshow. “There’s no meditation more enriching than…